mk85
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| posted on 25/4/16 at 11:43 AM |
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Work shop / garage bench ideas
Am going to build my workshop bench and looking for ideas and seeing what other people have done.
Would anyone like to share pictures of theres please.
thanks
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z2000
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| posted on 25/4/16 at 11:57 AM |
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I used pallet racking to make a very heavy duty workbench. It's fairly cheap to pick up and then you can either use wooden boards or pallets to
build a top and shelves underneath. I'll try and dig out a photo if I can.
If it isn't broken; take it apart and fix it! Build PhotoBlog:
http://z2000.co.uk
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Matt21
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| posted on 25/4/16 at 11:58 AM |
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http://locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/8/viewthread.php?tid=203669
Instagram: @matt211988
Photobucket
My YouTube
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nick205
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| posted on 25/4/16 at 02:33 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt21
http://locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/8/viewthread.php?tid=203669
That's what I was going to do!
Just built mine with a frame of 4" x 2" timber I had to hand and a 2m sheet of kitchen worktop from Wickes @ £31.50.
Flat and stable and cheap as chips.
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tims31
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| posted on 25/4/16 at 02:41 PM |
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Made mine and the draw unit from two sheets of 50mm plywood and the frame for the draws and other end of bench with 50x100mm timber, cost about £80
all in. Draw unit bolted to the wall and the top fixed to the draws and the frame on the end, very solid.
 
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[Edited on 25/4/16 by tims31]
Build: http://www.martinsfurybuild.co.uk/
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nick205
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| posted on 25/4/16 at 02:54 PM |
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Nice work and liking the shelves as well. You can't beat a good shelf for storing stuff 
ETA...by chance I put a shelf up over the weekend designed to hold the kids cycle helmets and removing them from the garage floor.
[Edited on 25/4/16 by nick205]
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Slimy38
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| posted on 25/4/16 at 04:05 PM |
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I went to Wickes and bought two double kitchen cupboards that were pretty beaten up so got them for a few quid, then a length of wood for a worktop
that was similarly bashed and similarly cheap. It does the job perfectly, and the dents and scratches are now so numerous I don't know what were
there to start and what have been added by me!
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joneh
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| posted on 25/4/16 at 06:57 PM |
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Yup I used an old kitchen too 
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mark chandler
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| posted on 25/4/16 at 08:19 PM |
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Make heavy, bolt to the wall and floor then stick on a big vice
I made one from scaffold planks, cost £5 each for some old ones which I braced, glued and bolted together on a welded scaffold tube base, bit ugly but
very very strong.
One in my current garage is 1" tube frame, 2" angle frame around the top with 38mm chipboard let in to this.
I added some steel around where the vice bolts, the whole thing is bolted to the floor and wall, useful for welding as the earth clip just sits on the
angle and having a strong angle surrond is useful to bash stuff on.
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DanP
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| posted on 25/4/16 at 11:34 PM |
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There is a nice style of homemade bench here that wraps around a tool chest:
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126086&highlight=toolboxes+workbench&page=3
Made my own here with some pre cut steel sections (just gave metal supermarkets my dimensions) that I welded up and painted:
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/750x/98/c1/3b/98c13b6b017b1d1d3332ecccc45ec0f6.jpg
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/750x/45/c7/d2/45c7d2a2356b757d51bba41071ecdd03.jpg
Cheers,
Dan
[Edited on 25/4/16 by DanP]
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Bluemoon
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| posted on 26/4/16 at 06:38 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by DanP
There is a nice style of homemade bench here that wraps around a tool chest:
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=126086&highlight=toolboxes+workbench&page=3
Made my own here with some pre cut steel sections (just gave metal supermarkets my dimensions) that I welded up and painted:
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/750x/98/c1/3b/98c13b6b017b1d1d3332ecccc45ec0f6.jpg
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/750x/45/c7/d2/45c7d2a2356b757d51bba41071ecdd03.jpg
Cheers,
Dan
[Edited on 25/4/16 by DanP]
Nice, wish mine looked like that, don't have the time to keep it tidy can't see my work bench'; colour scheme is smart.
CNC looks interesting, kit or home brew?
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DanP
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| posted on 26/4/16 at 07:16 AM |
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Hi,
Thanks, you should see it right now, mess everywhere and engine on the floor! Got the bank holiday to get it tidy and get the kit back on the road!
The cnc plasma is a kit from the US called a Torch-mate, the Lathe (and now Mill) are Wabeco units with factory fitted manual and CNC controls with
the electronics and software replaced with Mach3 and Gecko-drives.
Cheers,
Dan
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dhutch
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| posted on 26/4/16 at 09:17 PM |
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Dad build his bench, and its a cracker.
3*3 for the legs, and 3ft spacing, with 2*3 going front to back to make frames, top one of which is half-lapped in so the downward force acts directly
on the leg not via the bolts (could likely have used large woodscrews these days), bottom one supports shelving, diagonal bracing comes from 5mm ply
nailed to the frames and to the back. It then has stout angle brackets securing it to the wall all round.
For the top I would just inch plywood or the like which with something to stiffen the edge is likely enough for most jobs, if you are going to be a
lot of hammering (woodwork) then its worth the spend to put a piece of 2*8 down the front edge which also gives you something to screw a woodwork vice
up to and a metalwork vice down to.
There are some over-kill examples, but if its work working on, much better that than it wobbling at all.
Daniel
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